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A night in the ward where love and procedure meet. Grief, clipboards, and the soft hum of machines. What bureaucracy can’t name, the body supplies.
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Go shoppingLitro’s weekly fiction feature — carefully selected stories with voice, pressure, movement and lasting afterimage.
A night in the ward where love and procedure meet. Grief, clipboards, and the soft hum of machines. What bureaucracy can’t name, the body supplies.
Serial Fiction, Story Sunday, The Last Time-Traveller
Two lovers stand among the trees as the mind tilts. Love, longing, and the small unspokens that undo us.
An interviewer hikes into the Black Forest to meet Dopey’s mother. Which witch? Which story? The answers arrive in deadpan whispers—and an axe that glints at dusk.
A young Scottish football fan brings his French girlfriend to a match, hoping to bond — but obsession, masculinity, and cultural fault lines unravel everything.
When a Scots student in Oxford realises he’s losing his language, a tiny creature becomes a bridge between worlds.
A fallen footballer, community service, and the struggle to find redemption. The Baller is gritty, funny, and tragic.
Fiction, Story Sunday, Technology
A woman haunted by grief, burnout, and something in her vent— a ghost story for the digital age.
Rear Window meets emotional freefall in this subtle, voyeuristic portrait of love, timing, and what we see — or think we see — from across the street.
Dinosaurs. Poets. A care home field trip to hell. ‘Triassic Abbey’ is what happens when satire out-evolves extinction.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
She forgot something—was it a grocery item or her old life?
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, Technology
A mountain sunrise, a local cigarette, and a romantic’s battle with addiction in India.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, Technology
A young boy’s curious mind uncovers the humour and heartbreak in his neighbours’ relationship.
Editor's Pick, Story Sunday, Technology
Set against the backdrop of family dysfunction and cultural displacement, the protagonist’s journey through trauma, identity, and survival is raw, poignant, and deeply human.
Editor's Pick, Story Sunday, Technology
Through a journey filled with historical reflections and contemporary challenges, the story explores connections to family, place, and self.